Overview
Taxonomy
The Class Marattiopsida is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Order (1): Marattiales
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 546 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Class Marattiopsida.
Orders
Marattiales
Class Marattiopsida is a group of ferns containing a single order, Marattiales, and family, Marattiaceae. Class Marattiopsida diverged from other ferns very early in their evolutionary history and are quite different from many plants familiar to people in temperate zones. Many of them have massive, fleshy rootstocks and the largest known fronds of any fern. The Marattiaceae is one of two groups of ferns traditionally known as eusporangiate fern, meaning that the sporangium is formed from a group of cells vs the leptosporangium in which there is a single initial cell. There have long been four traditional extant genera (Angiopteris, Christensenia, Danaea and Marattia), but recent genetic/cladistic analysis has determined the genus Marattia to be paraphyletic, and the genus has been split into three genera, the two new ones being Eupodium and Ptisana. This fern group has a long fossil history with many extinct taxa (Psaronius, , Scolecopteris, Eoangiopteris, Qasimia, Marantoidea, Danaeites, Marattiopsis, etc.) [more]
At least 558 species and subspecies belong to the Order Marattiales.
More info about the Order Marattiales may be found here.
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